The Nation Newspaper Food insecurity: FG to ban 'portfolios, political farmers' - Agric minister
In a bid to ensure food security, the federal government is set to ban “portfolios and political farmers” parading themselves as real farmers ahead of this year’s farming season., disclosed this on Thursday, March 21, during a roundtable conversation on “the Food Price, the Forex and the Farmer” organised by the Progressive Forum to mark the 44th birthday of its leader, Barrister Ismaeel Ahmed.
The Minister further said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given his ministry the necessary support to ensure that the real farmers are properly targeted. “This year we intend to start a programme that will highlight who these people are, where they are located, and what farming operation they do so that we can key them in as verified genuine farmers, not the portfolios farmers, not the political farmers, not the fake farmers who come in with ten and thousands of hectares claim just to siphon whatever support government is making available for farmers, and at the end of the day on paper we are supposed to have massive production but in reality,...
She complained that some individuals and corporate bodies enjoyed government interventions and rebates during the last administration of President Muhammad Buhari but failed to the monies they collected. “Somebody said we need to do capacity screening on our governors because a lot of them are intellectually lazy. We need to draw up an agriculture master plan to boost agriculture in the country.”
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